INSPIRATION #7
March 3, 2016
Thanks to doing some traveling, I’ve been to quite a few concerts during the last six months. Some nice ones have been:
Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Isabelle van Keulen conducted by Marc Soustrot (Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps / Dutilleux: Violin Concerto “L’Arbre des Songes” / Musorgskij: Pictures at an Exhibition) @ Malmö Live on September 10th, 2015
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra & Sergei Babayan / Alexander Gavrylyuk conducted by Valery Gergiev (Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos # 4 & 3) @ De Doelen, Rotterdam on September 12th, 2015
Chick Corea & Bela Fleck @ Town Hall, NYC on September 27th 2015
Malmö Symphony Orchestra conducted by Håkan Hardenberger (Takemitsu: Paths for Solo Trumpet, Rain Coming / Stravinskij: Capriccio for Piano & Orchestra / Broström: Transit Underground / Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra) @ Malmö Live on October 8th, 2015
Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Rainer Honeck conducted by Marc Soustrot (Mendelssohn: The Hebrides / Britten: Violin Concerto / Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra @ Malmö Live on October 22nd, 2015
Carla Bley Trios + Lennart Åberg Plays the Music of Carla Bley @ Fasching, Stockholm on November 8th, 2015
Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad & Ravikumar/H N Bhaskar/Guru Karaikkudi Mani/N Amrit @ Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai on December 16th, 2015
N Ravikiran Chitravina/Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi/Mannargudi Eswaran/K V Gopalakrishnan @ Arkay Convention Center, Chennai on December 17th, 2015
Kalakshetra (Dance) @ Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai on December 18th, 2015
Abhishek Raghuram/Mysore Srikanth/Anantha R. Krishnan @ Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Chennai on December 19th, 2015
Shashank/B.U. Ganesh Prasad/Patri Satish Kumar @ Chettinad Vidyashram Auditorium, Chennai on December 20th, 2015
Dr. Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman/S. Saketharaman/Vittal Ramamurthy/D. Chandrajith @ Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai on December 21st, 2015
Mannargudi M.S.K. Sankaranarayanan/Mannargudi M.S.K. Venkatesan/Aridwaramangalm A.K. Palanivel/M.S. Ravi Kumar @ Brahma Gana Sabha, Chennai on December 22nd, 2015
Shantala Subramanyam/Akkarai Sornalatha/Vijay Natesan/Harihara Sharma @ Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai on December 23rd, 2015
Shirisha Shashank (Dance) @ Narada Gana Sabha, Chennai on December 24th, 2015
S. Shashank/B.U. Ganesh Prasad/V.V. Ramanamurthy/G. Guruprasanna @ The Music Academy, Chennai on December 25th, 2015
Mysore Brothers, Manjunath & Nagaraj/Patri Satish Kumar/V Suresh @ Arkay Convention Center, Chennai on December 26th, 2015
Jayanthi Kumaresh/Bangalore Arjun Kumar/Trichy S. Krishnaswamy @ The Music Academy, Chennai on December 26th, 2015
Akkarai Sisters Subhalakshmi & Sornalatha/M. Rajeev/N.C. Bharadwaj/N. Rajaraman @ The Music Academy, Chennai on December 27th, 2015
Ranjani & Gayathri/H.N. Bhaskar/Sai Giridhar/G. Chandrasekara Sharma @ Mylapore Fine Arts Club, Chennai on December 27th, 2015
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev (Sibelius: A Saga / Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel / Stravinsky: Petrushka) @ De Doelen, Rotterdam on January 22nd, 2016
Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Jian Wang conducted by Nikolaj Znaider (Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor / Shostakovich: Symphony #5) @ Malmö Live on February 11th, 2016
Brad Mehldau & Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra @ Flagey, Brussels on February 25th, 2016
For the same reason, I haven’t been listening as much to records lately. However, I’ve been into these albums:
Steve Coleman: Weaving Symbolics (Label Bleu)
Fredrik Ljungkvist / Mattias Hjorth: Past In Present (Kopasetic)
Gustav Mahler: Complete Works (Warner Classics)
Weather Report: The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 (Sony Legacy)
And I’ve been reading “Igor Stravinsky” by Michael Oliver.